New Of Montreal Song!

 

Of Montreal has been one of my favorite bands since probably 8th grade when I first heard “Pancakes For One” off of Aldhil’s Arboretum.  They’ve come a long way since then, developing their sound with each album.  My favorite has remained The Sunlandic Twins, a compilation of pop-dance songs and contains my all time favorite piece by the band, “Oslo in the Summertime.”

Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? released in 2007 showed the group’s more progressive side and is definitely a wonderful album.  But I haven’t enjoyed the following ones, Skeletal Lamping and (especially) False Priest nearly as much.  Kevin Barnes made me feel creeped out with all of the sexual references and less than exciting, attention catching tunes.

But my faith in Of Montreal has been restored!  The release of their new album Paralytic Stalks will be on February 7th and after listening to the 4th track on the album, I’m definitely stoked to hear the rest of them.  My first impression is that it’s a mixture of Hissing Fauna and Skeletal Lamping, which is not a bad thing what-so-ever.

Hear for yourself! What do you think?

WCDB’s Top 50 Albums of 2011!

Sorry for the delay… but here it is!

1	M83- Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
2	St. Vincent- Strange Mercy
3	Steven Malkmus and the Jicks- Mirror Traffic
4	Wild Flag – Wild Flag
5	John Maus- We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
6	Bon Iver- Bon Iver
7	Cults- Cults
8	The Antlers- Burst Apart
9	Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
10	Pains of Being Pure at Heart- Belong
11	Givers- In Light
12	Panda Bear – Tomboy
13	Wye Oak- Civilian
14	Beirut- The Rip Tide
15	Washed Out – Within and Without
16	Man Man- Life Fantastic
17	Yuck- Yuck
18	Dale Earnhart Jr Jr- It’s A Corporate World
19	Portugal. The Man – In the Mountain in the Cloud
20	Zola Jesus- Conatus
21	Wire- Red Barked Trees
22	Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues
23	Dum Dum Girls- Only in Dreams
24	Cold Cave- Cherish the Light Years
25	The Mountain Goats- All Eternals Deck
26	tUnE-YarDs – w h o k i l l
27	The Weeknd – House of Balloons
28	YACHT – Shangri-La
29	Okkervil River- I Am Very Far
30	The Parlor- Our Day in the Sun
31	Destroyer- Kaputt
32	J Mascis – Several Shades of Why
33	Bright Eyes- The People’s Key
34	Iron & Wine- Kiss Each Other Clean
35	Real Estate- Days
36	The Decemberists- The King Is Dead
37	David Bazan- Strange Negotiations
38	Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx – We’re New Here
39	James Blake – James Blake
40	Future Islands- Out of Water
41	Radiohead- King of Limb
42	Cloud Nothings- Cloud Nothings
43	Wilco- The Whole Love
44	Dillon Francis – Westside
45	Mister Heavenly- Out of Love
46	Explosions in the sky- Take care, Take care, Take care
47	The Black Keys- El Camino
48	Smith Westerns- Dye it Blonde
49	Kanye West & Jay-Z- Watch The Throne
50	Rubblebucket – Omega La La

Thanks 2011!

It’s been an excellent year for WCDB.  We gained a ton of new DJs.

We accomplished 24 hour on air programming.

We discovered some great new artists across all genres.

And we gained listeners!

This blog has also been getting much more attention and for all of the above, we say THANK YOU!

WCDB Albany has compiled a list of the Top 50 Albums of 2011.  We will be sharing that with all of you here, via email to our mailing list, and in our printed magazine, Airwaves.

Once again, thanks for reading, tuning in, attending shows, etc., and we hope to continue our relationship with you this year!

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Hope you didin’t miss us too much. New music!

Happy holidays everybody!  Hope you had a wonderfully cheery one and got all the gifts you asked for if you were a good boy or girl this year!  For Hanukkah, my mom and I usually do some shopping together and I picked up some super cute shoes this year!  I also celebrated my first Christmas with my boyfriend and his massive Italian family.  It was tiring but I did get way more gifts than I was expecting to.   Plus it was a good time so I’m not complaining.  One gift I received that’s coming in great use is a new pair of headphones for all the new music I’ve been downloading.  What’s my current favorite you ask?

God Bless the USA

No words necessary.

There’s so many more!

I should be studying but these are irresistible!

Bfargz’s 2011 Albums of the Year

2011 had a lot of ups and downs. I think the choices I have in my top ten list are reflective of that. Many of these albums can be downloaded for free from ifyoumakeit.com.

Finally…Saturday?

Sorry for the late post, it’s been a busy week with finals and I wanted to wait to put this post up until I’d reviewed the cds I had since it’s my last blog post of the year! This one’s got some substance though, as I reveal the winners of my Indie awards(nominees listed in my previous post) along with some new reviews of albums by The Black Keys and Robert Pollard!

2011: The Year of Escapism

Conjuring up motifs and noises of the past, these ten artists have put their spin on nostalgia and have created a sound unique to each of them.  Music as always is a testament of the times, somehow it seems we’re being catapulted backwards. In some cases the artist deals head on with the current turmoil lyrically, but even when the content is irrelevant we’re sucked into a simpler time. Although it’s hard to remain hopeful when the skies look so dark and gloomy, there’s always “Watch The Thrown.”

Enter Shikari: listen to their new songs

Who knew hardcore and electronic music would blend so well together?  Hailing from England, Enter Shikari has seen a lot of success.  Their debut album released in 2007, Take To The Skies, reached reached #4 in the Official UK Album Chart and their following album which I find incredible, Common Dreads (2009) reached #16.  Their third studio album, A Flash Flood Of Color is due to come out January 16, 2012.

Melissa’s Top 10 Albums of 2011

It’s been a pretty decent year for new alternative albums.  I’ve managed to pick just enough of them after dismissing a lot of the indie garbage that dominated the CD releases these past 12 months.  I believe this list embodies my tastes fairly well and I have conviction in my choices and their order.  So now that the year is rapidly coming to an end, let’s recap some music!